05/07/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"90 percent of Americans believe that the economy is in bad shape. Almost 3 out of every 4 believe it won't get better anytime soon."
"The ill-conceived Gulf drilling moratorium flies in the face of everything common sense tells us about our precarious energy future and what we should be doing about it today."
"The Obama Administration themselves approved British Petroleum's operational waivers on the wells."
"And now with the drilling, trying to reinstate a drilling moratorium, they are intent on turning an environmental catastrophe into an economic catastrophe."